I did enjoy Ninotchka and one other one that I can't remember offhand (I think it had Basil Rathbone as her dicky husband).
Anna Karenina (that's a pretty big movie to forget)
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
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Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2006 8:12:56 am PST #6259 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2006 8:16:10 am PST #6260 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is a good one, too.
"My mind is going. There is no question about it."
*Well, meh on the bits that involve people talking to each other.
So true, even if the "meh" was deliberate (and I'd argue that it was).
Jessica - Dec 07, 2006 8:21:54 am PST #6261 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and I'd argue that it was
I completely agree, but it doesn't make those scenes any more fun to watch. And of all the sequences in the film, they're the ones that yield the least amount of new subtext on rewatch.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2006 8:26:58 am PST #6262 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I completely agree, but it doesn't make those scenes any more fun to watch. And of all the sequences in the film, they're the ones that yield the least amount of new subtext on rewatch.
Oh exactly. There was definitely satire going on there, but it was way too dry and one-note to be remotely entertaining.
Fred Pete - Dec 07, 2006 9:01:17 am PST #6263 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
My big problems with the film are the racial stereotyping, which I understand was part and parcel of that era of films
FWIW, the movie toned that down from the book. Which may give you an idea of how bad the book is on that score.
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 9:08:38 am PST #6264 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Love love love GWTW. The sets, the clothes, and sometimes, even Scarlett. She needs a good smacking, but...I don't know. I just like her. Maybe because she's a bitch and she knows it.
Kathy A - Dec 07, 2006 9:19:22 am PST #6265 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My favorite movies from the 1930s:
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It Happened One Night
Dinner at Eight (just for the final exchange between Marie Dressler and Jean Harlow alone)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Wizard of Oz
And probably more, but I can't think of them offhand. Except for the individual dance sequences in most of the Astaire/Rogers films of the decade.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2006 9:23:57 am PST #6266 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It Happened One Night(have much gable love, but liked Claudette too.) I used to be a GWTW fangirl. But I haven't seen it since I became a "confessed liberal" although the black folks always bothered me.
Fred Pete - Dec 07, 2006 9:30:07 am PST #6267 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Dinner at Eight (just for the final exchange between Marie Dressler and Jean Harlow alone)
That one doesn't even need to be mentioned -- it should just be assumed. (Though that's just the peak of two brilliant performances.)
askye - Dec 07, 2006 9:36:16 am PST #6268 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I love It Happened One Night I haven't seen Dinner at Eight I'll have to put that on my list.
Another movie I love is The Thin Man I watch it every time it comes on TCM even though I've seen it dozens of times. This Christmas I finally broke down and asked for the Thin Man box set.